On 10/9/05, Florian Overkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snacktime wrote:
> permit to be used for their contributions.. They won't be happy unless
> everyone else does things their way. They wouldn't be happy if asterisk
> was BSD or MIT licensed either.
No that's not true. I myself would be perfectly happy with an MPL.
However, because Asterisk is available under a GPL formed license, any
fork will need to be GPL too, until such a time that any and all GPL
code has been replaced by something the prospective owners are willing
to relicense under something else.
FLorian
A fork can be anything you want if you own the copyright. They could fork asterisk into a BSD license tommorrow if they wanted to. Or actually it would be a combination of BSD and public domain, with all new code going under BSD.
The people who don't like ABE wouldn't be happy with BSD, because what they dont' like is that Digium can take their contributions and release them as part of a closed source product. A BSD license would allow that just like owning the copyright does.
Personally I look at it like this. Until the point comes that Digium is contributing less to asterisk then the rest of the community has, then the community is gaining more than they have given. If I contribute code to asterisk which Digium sells for a profit via ABE, that's great. I still have access to asterisk which is worth a lot more than the small part I have contributed. I win, Digium wins, I dont' see the problem. The code I contributed I probably needed anways. And without asterisk I wouldn't have anything at all. And in addition, the more money Digium makes the better asterisk will be which also benefits me in the long run.
Chris
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